Attachment for shoes



(No Model.)

B. A. MGFADDEN. ATTACHMENT FOR SHOES, GLOVES, 8w.

No. 449,564. Patented Mar. 81, 1891.

w za UNITED STATES BERNARD A. MOFADDEN,

ATENT union.

or s'r LOUIS, MIssoURI.

ATTACHMENT FOR SHOES, GLOVES, 80C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,564, dated March 31, 1891. Application filed January 12, 1891- Serial No. 377,533. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BERNARD A. MOFAD- DEN, of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and useful Improvement in Attachments for Shoes, Gloves, and other Analogous Articles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

By means of the present improvement a tie for articles such as described can be readily and securely fastened.

The improvement consists, substantially, in the means whereby the tie can be readily adjusted and secured at any point on the tie, and when fixed upon the tie to form a shoulder thereon which prevents the tie from slipping through the hooks upon the shoe, gloves, &c., substantially as is hereinafter described and claimed, aided by the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, and showing the improvement applied to a shoe.

Figure 1 is a front elevation showing the upper part of a shoe having the improved attachment; and Figs. 2, 3, and 4, views upon an enlarged scale of the attachment, Fig. 2 showing the attachment in longitudinal section secured upon the tie end; Fig. 3, a side elevation of the attachment, the direction of the slot therein being modified; and Fig. 4, a side elevation of the attachment, the slot therein being further modified.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

The upper portion A only of the shoe is shown.

B represents an ordinary tie.

C 0 represent the improved attachments, which are applied to the ends b' b, respectively, of the tie. The attachments are tube-like forms, open at the outer end 0, and also perforated at the opposite inner end 0' to enable them to he slipped onto the tie. The perforation c in said inner end is preferably only large enough to admit the tie end freely, as thereby a more desirable form can be given to the attachment. In this way the attachment is adapted to be applied to the tie end at any desired point thereon, substantially as shown; but as thus far described the at tachment is loose upon the tie end, and to provide for tightening it, the attachment is slotted in its side 0 The slot 0 extends from the outer end 0 of the attachment toward the inner end thereof, and at its inner end the slot is narrowed to awidth which is narrower than the diameter of the tie end, and the attachment is fastened by drawing the tie end into such narrowed portion of said slot, in which position the tie end becomes nipped in the slot, so that it is prevented from slipping endwise therein, and to loosen the attachment upon the tie end the tie end must be first slipped into the wider portion of said slot. As the strain upon the main portion 19 of the tie in use does not tend to draw the tie end toward the wider portion of the slot, there is small liability that the tie end will become loose by reason of any force exert-ed by the tie itself. To lessen the liability,the slot, as indicated at c in Fig. 3, is extended not only toward the inner end but also sidewise in the attachment side 0 and the most desirable form of the slot is shown in Fig. 4, the slot being extended and narrowed, substantially as shown in Fig. 2, and then extended laterally, substantially as shown at c. In this last-named form the tie endhas to be slipped in two distinct directions, first sidewise and then toward the outer end of the attachment, in order to loosen it, and the best form of this last-described slot is when it is narrowed to its smallest width at or before the entrance to the portion 0 is reached. This particular form is shown in Fig. 4, in which it will be seen the portion c is narrowed throughout its length.

Fig. 1 illustrates the use of the improvement. The tie is interlaced with the hooks D D upon the shoe, and the attachments are.

slipped upon the tie ends so as to bear against the hooks, and the tie ends are drawn into the attachment-slots, substantially as is represented.

1. The herein-described lace attachment, consisting of the tubular form, open at the outer end,perforated at the opposite inner end, and slotted in its side, said slot extending from said outer end of the attachment toward the inner end thereof to enable the lace to be drawn longitudinally through said at tachment and the lace end to be fastened by drawing it into said slot, as described.

2. The hereindescribed lace attachment, consisting of the tubular form, open at the outer end, perforated at the opposite inner end, and slotted in its side, Said slot extending from said outer end of the attachment to ward the inner end thereof, and at its inner end being narrowed to a Width narrower than the diameter of the lace end to enable the lace to be drawn longitudinally through said attachment and the lace end to be fastened by drawing it into the narrowed portion of said slot, as described.

3. The tie attachment perforated longitudinally to receive the tie and having its side slotted, said slot extending from the outer end of the attachment toward the inner end thereof and thence sidewise, and being narrowed at its inner end, substantially as described.

\Vitness my hand this 9th day of January, 1891.

BERNARD A. MoFADDEN.

\Vitnesses:

O. D. MOODY, A. BONVILLE. 

